Digital transformation within the building sector
Buildings are the single largest consumer of energy in Europe, responsible for approximately 40 percent of EU energy consumption and 36 percent of the energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Transformation within the building sector is therefore crucial to achieving the UN sustainability goals. Adoption of digital building models, or building information models (BIMs), underpins the digital transformation in the building sector, enabling stakeholders such as architects, engineers, contractors, and facility managers to collaborate, visualise, simulate, and analyse the building throughout its lifecycle.
3D models and drawings from scanned point clouds
Exact Geo Survey is a leading surveying, scan to BIM, and digitisation company that wants to set a new standard for how 3D models and drawings are created from scanned point clouds. This ambitious task will be undertaken together with SINTEF as R&D partner as well as BIM stakeholders from the entire value chain. The increased availability of scanning technology has greatly simplified the process for collecting data used to construct BIMs. However, creating useful 3D models and plans from raw point cloud and image data is still a labour intensive and thus expensive process, presenting a critical barrier to adoption of digital processes, particularly within the municipal and small business sectors.
Revolutionising BIM production and usage with AI
New methods are therefore needed for fast and cost-effective production of 3D models and floor plans from scanned data. In this project, we will build on recent advances to the state of the art for neural network-based processing of 3D data and generative AI to develop novel BIM production technologies that will enable Exact Geo Survey to revolutionise the use of digital processes within the building sector.
